Zach S. Henderson Library to host annual Farm-to-Table Dinner June 8
May 30, 2017
Tickets are on sale now through June 3 for the eighth annual Farm-to-Table fundraising dinner benefiting the Zach S. Henderson Library. The dinner will take place on Thursday, June 8, at Forest Heights Country Club at 6:30 p.m.
The annual Farm-to-Table Dinner raises money to strengthen the scholarly collections and services of southeast Georgia’s premier academic library. The dinner supports local agriculture by creating gourmet delicacies using ingredients purchased at the Statesboro Mainstreet Farmers Market. This year’s custom menu will be prepared by Chef Kevin Case.
Chef Case’s tentative menu is as follows:
- 1st Course
- Local Garden Salad with Pecan Goat Cheese Fritters and Georgia Oysters, Fresh Herb Vinaigrette
- 2nd Course
- Sweet Tea Glazed Smoked Pork Belly with Tasso Ham Spoon Bread and Crispy Vidalia Onions
- 3rd Course
- Cornmeal Dusted Fried Tilefish with Chow Chow and Tomato Jam
- 4th Course
- Grilled Strip Steak with Boiled Peanut Succotash and Demi-Glace
- 5th Course
- Roasted Peaches in Tuile Cookie and Housemade Ice Cream
Please note: The menu is subject to change at Chef’s discretion based on weather and harvest availability.
Along with the five-course meal, the evening will be full of entertainment. Michael Braz, Ph.D., a professor in the University’s Department of Music, will provide live music during the pre-dinner cocktail mingling, and Pamela Bauer Mueller, Georgia Author of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2009, will serve as the evening’s guest speaker.
Mueller is an award-winning author of books for children and adults who makes her home on Jekyll Island on the Southeast Georgia coast. Over the last decade, she has written and published eight books of fiction. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She was briefly a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines, and lived with her husband, an architect from Mexico City, there for 18 years. She taught Spanish to corporate executives, and worked as a commercial model and an actress in both Mexican and American movies.
She later became a U.S. Customs Agent in San Diego before moving to Vancouver where she began her writing career and moved with her husband to the Georgia coast. Her first three published books, the "Kiska Trilogy," focused on a wonderful cat named Kiska whose journey paralleled that of its author, from Mexico to San Diego to Canada to the southeastern United States. That trilogy for young readers includes "The Bumpedy Road" (1999), "Rain City Cats" (2000) and "Eight Paws to Georgia."
Since then she has released several other books including "Hello, Goodbye, I Love You" (2003) and "Aloha Crossing" (2008), both inspirational stories about guide dogs. Also, "Neptune's Honor" (2005), about an antebellum era Sea Island slave; "An Angry Drum Echoed" (2007), a look at Indians living in coastal Georgia during colonial times; and "Splendid Isolation" (2010), a novelized look back at the wealthy elite who once vacationed at Jekyll Island.
The deadline to buy tickets is June 3. Tickets are $75 each and may be purchased by contacting the Dean of the Library’s office at 912-478-5115. Tickets may also be purchased online at alumni.georgiasouthern.edu/F2TDinner.
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